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The WRITING FOR THE SHEAR JOY A novel approach to sheep breeding Page 2 40 PAGES SATURDAY, JULY 28, 2018 GREATER HAMILTON $1.80 inc GST NUDE FOOD MOVEMENT Students embrace wrapper-free trend Page 13 NATIONAL Centre for Farmer Health research fellow, Dr Alison Kennedy, was awarded the winner of the Emerging Researcher category at the 2018 LiFE awards for Excellence in Suicide Prevention at the annual conference this week. Photo: BILLY EASSON. MENTAL HEALTH CRUSADER TARA FRY TO fi nish off an incredible week for Western District Health Service (WDHS), research fellow at the National Centre for Farmer Health (NCFH) Alison Kennedy, has received national recognition for her work promoting suicide awareness and prevention. Dr Kennedy was the winner of the Emerging Researcher category at the 2018 LiFE awards for Excellence in Suicide Prevention, announced at the annual conference in Adelaide this week. Dr Kennedy was shocked when she was invited to the awards and even more surprised when she was announced the winner. “I was surprised,” she told The Spectator. “The suicide prevention sector has a really strong research base, so I was very honoured to be recognised with the award.” Dr Kennedy was nominated by her previous PhD supervisor from the University of New England, where she received the Chancellor’s doctoral research medal upon graduation. Her doctoral research was a mixed method of study examining the experience of suicide and accidental-death bereavement for rural farming families. Beginning her career with the NCFH in 2010 as a research assistant, Dr Kennedy’s fi rst major project upon completion of her PhD was the Ripple Effect, an award winning online suicide prevention project. “I was employed by Deakin University and the centre when I fi nished by PhD and it has been a wild ride,” she said. The Ripple Effect uses digital media to convey lived experience, education and personal challenges to reduce stigma and questions the current, best practice suicide stigma assessment. Following the Ripple Effect, which focussed on males in rural landscapes, Dr Kennedy expanded her research and created a second project, From Inside the Farm Gate, giving rural women the opportunity to share their mental health journey. The award mentioned both projects, along with her latest venture, AgSPACE – a collaborative project with the Victorian Coroner’s Court to improve suicide prevention efforts in rural farming communities. “There is a Victoria suicide register which gathers all of the relevant coronial data, so it takes pieces of all the evidence to help shed light on suicide, so we will be particularly looking at rural suicide and farming related suicide to get an idea of the magnitude of the problem,” Dr Kennedy said. SHEEPVENTION UNCOVERED In Today’s Edition FORGOT TO ADVERTISE YOUR PRODUCT? Contact us on 5572 1011 to place your advertisement in next Saturday’s Sheepvention Update Program & Preview “We’re really wanting to get a true representation of suicide in that context and also understand it more deeply and putting the fi ndings of the research into action. “Some of the social and cultural elements in rural areas are quite different to what we see in urban areas, so we need to make sure we are hitting the mark and delivering services that actually mean something and are likely to be effective.” Continued: PAGE 7 SGG28PF